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Florisboard Release v0.5.0-beta02 (github.com)
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Quoting their description:

An open-source keyboard for Android which respects your privacy. Currently in early-beta.

Excerpts from the Changelog:

What's Changed

This release also marks an important developer milestone, as its release commit is the 2500th commit on the main brach :tada:

Full Changelog: https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard/compare/v0.5.0-beta01...v0.5.0-beta02

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

How does this compare to Heliboard or FUTO?

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

I use heliboard and briefly florisboard months ago.

biggest difference back then is florisboard doesn't have swipe typing. functionally, like the clipboard, text editing, etc., they are on par IIRC. I like the esthetic and looks on florisboard a lot better but swipe typing is more important to me.

of note on heliboard's clipboard, you can set a timer to clear the clipboard.

if it's important to you, you can't search in heliboard's emoji keyboard.

I also used FUTO for a while, but I dont really remember much why I disliked it vs heliboard.

as I finished typing all these, I realized you might be a heliboard user. I'll just leave it up for others :P

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Swipe typing (and word suggestions) are on the roadmap for Florisboard 0.6 I believe. Though, they were also on the roadmap for 0.5 until recently...

Florisboard used to have swipe typing, but it just wasn't really useful without a working suggestion engine, so it's been disabled.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Feel like they've said swipe is coming forever. I like the project but have went to heliboard for swiping.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

yeah, makes sense that turn it off

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I used it about a year ago and there was no autocorrect, much less multi-language autocorrect. Do you know if it has changed by now?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Using florisboard to type this, swype typing and autocorrect are coming in a future release. Seems like it requires a substantial refactoring. Currently gestures can be mapped to various functions like hiding the keyboard or uppercase.

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